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So we are once again in the - please give alternatives. No clouds, no syncs, no other bullsit ... Postman is dead, insomnia seemed like good alternative.


REST Client extension in VSCode. Just a file that makes requests and lives in your repo. No totally unnecessary SaaS business with per user licensing fees.


I found that there are two possible answers:

* good old tools - curl, Emacs plugins (restclient.el is pretty nice), Vim plugins;

* and Postman/Insomnia alternatives - restfox.dev, hoppscotch.io and httpie.io (my personal preference so far) and I found this group to be the most volatile (I personally has moved from Postman to Insomnia).


A while ago I built https://github.com/mfinelli/cui because I wanted something like postman that ran in my terminal. It's a little rough around the edges but it does the job for me


I have settled for Thunderclient vscode extension. Realy nice...


https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Self-hosted and open source.




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